BILL NUMBER: SCR 89	CHAPTERED  09/12/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   133
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 12, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 28, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   AUGUST 18, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 10, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Vasconcellos

                        AUGUST 7, 2000

   Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 89--Relative to the Office of
Student Regent of the University of California.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 89, Vasconcellos.  Office of Student Regent of the University
of California.
   This measure would recognize, commend, and celebrate the
contributions of the Office of Student Regent of the University of
California and the 26 students who have held that office.  The
measure would commend the University of California for its commitment
to the inclusion of students as equal partners in the shared
governance of the university.




   WHEREAS, In his inaugural address of 1899, President Benjamin Ide
Wheeler of the University of California declared that "the age of
paternalism in university government is well nigh past" and that
administrative and academic decisions "which do not in the long run
commend themselves to the best sense of the student public are
probably wrong; they will be surely in the long run nugatory"; and
   WHEREAS, The failures of university governance in the 1960s
demonstrated the prescience of President Wheeler, who concluded that
"in the internal regulation of the university order there can be in
the last analysis no fixed boundary line between the governing and
the governed"; and
   WHEREAS, Since its founding on March 23, 1868, the governance of
the university has been entrusted to the Regents of the University of
California, whose composition has, over the decades, been intended
to represent the essential constituencies of California, its people,
and its university; and
   WHEREAS, In 1974, the California Legislature determined that
providing for appointment of a student of the University of
California as a full and coequal member of the Regents of the
University of California, among other improvements, was a "meaningful
and necessary change in the structure of the Board of Regents" that
would "insure that the university will be more responsive and
reflective of the interests of a rapidly changing California,"
according to the official argument favoring amendment of the State
Constitution, signed by President of the University of California
Charles J. Hitch, Senator Albert S. Rodda, and Assemblyman John J.
Miller; and
   WHEREAS, On November 5, 1974, the people of the State of
California amended the Constitution of the State of California to
provide for the appointment of a student of the University of
California as a regent for a term of not less than one year, and that
this appointment be made only in consultation with representatives
of students of the university, including officers of the student
governments; and
   WHEREAS, In the twenty-five years since the voters established the
position, the student regent has brought a unique, essential,
valuable, and appropriate viewpoint to the highest councils of the
university, providing a new level of legitimacy, accountability, and
effectiveness to university policymaking, and at the same time giving
to students, parents, and ordinary Californians the confidence that
a person more of their own particular experiences, economic
circumstances, and values is now more likely to sit at the regents'
table as a full-fledged member of the board; and
   WHEREAS, Carol Mock (Santa Barbara), Daryn Peeples Beringer
(Berkeley), Michael Salerno (Davis), Renee Turkell (Los Angeles),
Hector Cruz Lozano (Davis), Leslie Lurie (Los Angeles), David Neuman
(Los Angeles), Linda Rae Sabo (San Diego), Richard E. Anderson (Los
Angeles), Fred Gaines (Berkeley), Janice Eberly (Davis), David
Hoffman (Los Angeles), Jacquelyn Ross (Davis), Deborah Thorpe-Rana
(Davis), Guillermo Rodriguez, Jr. (Berkeley), Jenny Doh (Irvine),
Diana Darnell (San Francisco), Alex Wong (Berkeley), Darby Ann
Morrisroe (Davis), Terrence Wooten (Riverside), Edward P. Gomez
(Riverside), Jess Bravin (Berkeley), Kathryn McClymond (Santa
Barbara), Max Espinoza (Los Angeles), and Michelle K. Pannor
(Berkeley) have served successively and successfully as the Student
Regent of the University of California, and the twenty-sixth Student
Regent of the University of California, Justin Fong (Los Angeles),
who assumed office on July 1, 2000; and
   WHEREAS, Each of these students who has served as a regent has
dispatched her or his duties with idealism, courage, and vigor--often
serving as the "conscience" of the Regents of the University of
California, especially in matters ranging from the affordability of
tuition, to the ethics of university business practices, to the
appropriateness of divestiture of university investments in an
apartheid economy, even while pursuing the rigorous course of study
expected of all the university's students; and
   WHEREAS, The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
creation of the office of the Student Regent of the University of
California; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California
recognize, commend, and celebrate the contributions of the office of
the Student Regent of the University of California, and of the
twenty-five students who have held the office over its life; and be
it further
   Resolved, That the Legislature commend the University of
California for its commitment to, and encourage expansion of, its
policy to include students at all levels as equal partners in the
process of shared governance of the university; and be it further
   Resolved, That suitably inscribed copies of this resolution be
provided to the regents of the university and to each student who has
served as a student regent.
